Τετάρτη 11 Μαρτίου 2020


Immobilized ProteinâEuro" Polymer Nanoreactors
Surface-immobilized nanoscale reactors utilizing membrane protein channels are used to generate precisely patterned chemically and biologically active surfaces (see image). The enzymatic conversion of a fluorogenic substrate in the cavity of immobilized nanoreactors is a model reaction demonstrating future potential application of the system in sensors, analytics, microfluidics, and single-molecule spectroscopy.
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Entwicklungsdiagnostik
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Interactome and F-Actin Interaction Analysis of Dictyostelium discoideum Coronin A
Coronin proteins are evolutionary conserved WD repeat containing proteins that have been proposed to carry out different functions. In; Dictyostelium; , the short coronin isoform, coronin A, has been implicated in cytoskeletal reorganization, chemotaxis, phagocytosis and the initiation of multicellular development. Generally thought of as modulators of F-actin, coronin A and its mammalian homologs have also been shown to mediate cellular processes in an F-actin-independent manner. Therefore, it remains...
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Two-level Dynamic Load Balancing for High Performance Scientific Applications
Scientific applications are often complex, irregular, and computationally-intensive. To accommodate their ever-increasing computational demands, the high-performance computing (HPC) systems have become larger and more complex, offering increased hardware parallelism at multiple levels (e.g., nodes, cores per node, threads per core). Scientific applications need to exploit all multilevel hardware parallelism to harness the available computational power. The performance of applications executing on...
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Concentration of the Clock Process Normalisation for the Metropolis Dynamics of the REM
In Černý and Wassmer (Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 167:253–303, 2017) [8], it was shown that the clock process associated with the Metropolis dynamics of the Random Energy Model converges to an α-stable process, after being scaled by a random, Hamiltonian dependent, normalisation. We prove here that this random normalisation can be replaced by a deterministic one.
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Vom Orientalischen Seminar zum Seminar für Nahoststudien. Zur jüngsten Geschichte des Seminars (2010-2019)
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Sovjan (Korçë): First Remarks about the Late Bronze Age Pottery
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Anthracene Diphosphate Ligands for CdSe Quantum Dots; Molecular Design for Efficient Upconversion
Quantum dot (QD)-sensitized photon upconversion follows a multi-step energy transfer process from the QD to transmitter ligand to a soluble annihilator. Using a novel 10-R-anthracene-1,8-diphosphoric acid (R = octyl, 2-hexyldecyl, phenyl) ligand with high binding affinity for CdSe QD surfaces, we demonstrate a photon upconversion process that is limited by the transmitter to annihilator transfer efficiency. Using 1H NMR spectroscopy, we demonstrate that these bidentate diphosphate ligands rapidly...
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V3C1 Dataset: An Evaluation of Content Characteristics
In this work we analyze content statistics of the V3C1 dataset, which is the first partition of the Vimeo Creative Commons Collection (V3C). The dataset has been designed to represent true web videos in the wild, with good visual quality and diverse content characteristics, and will serve as evaluation basis for the Video Browser Showdown 2019-2021 and TREC Video Retrieval (TRECVID) Ad-Hoc Video Search tasks 2019-2021. The dataset comes with a shot segmentation (around 1 million shots) for which...
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Retrieval of Structured and Unstructured Data with vitrivr
With the increase in sensory capability of mobile devices, the data that can be generated and used in a lifelogging context gets increasingly diverse. Such data is special in the context of multimedia, not only because of its close personal relationship with its originator, but also because of its diverse multimodality and its composition from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This diversity poses retrieval challenges that are unique to lifelog data but which also have implications...
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TNF-α antagonists differentially induce TGF-β1-dependent resuscitation of dormant-like Mycobacterium tuberculosis
TNF-α- as well as non-TNF-α-targeting biologics are prescribed to treat a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory disorders. The well-documented risk of tuberculosis progression associated with anti-TNF-α treatment highlighted the central role of TNF-α for the maintenance of protective immunity, although the rate of tuberculosis detected among patients varies with the nature of the drug. Using a human, in-vitro granuloma model, we reproduce the increased reactivation rate of tuberculosis following...
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Interactive video retrieval in the age of deep learning
We present a tutorial focusing on video retrieval tasks, where state-of-the-art deep learning approaches still benefit from interactive decisions of users. The tutorial covers general introduction to the interactive video retrieval research area, state-of-the-art video retrieval systems, evaluation campaigns and recently observed results. Moreover, a significant part of the tutorial is dedicated to a practical exercise with three selected state-of-the-art systems in the form of an interactive video...
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Theileria parasites subvert E2F signaling to stimulate leukocyte proliferation
Intracellular pathogens have evolved intricate mechanisms to subvert host cell signaling pathways and ensure their own propagation. A lineage of the protozoan parasite genus Theileria infects bovine leukocytes and induces their uncontrolled proliferation causing a leukemia-like disease. Given the importance of E2F transcription factors in mammalian cell cycle regulation, we investigated the role of E2F signaling in Theileria-induced host cell proliferation. Using comparative genomics and surface...
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Multimodal Multimedia Retrieval with vitrivr
The steady growth of multimedia collections - both in terms of size and heterogeneity - necessitates systems that are able to conjointly deal with several types of media as well as large volumes of data. This is especially true when it comes to satisfying a particular information need, i.e., retrieving a particular object of interest from a large collection. Nevertheless, existing multimedia management and retrieval systems are mostly organized in silos and treat different media types separately....
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A Flexible Approach to Football Analytics: Assessment, Modeling and Implementation
Quantitative analysis in football is difficult due to the complexity and continuous fluidity of the game. Even though there is an increased accessibility of spatio-temporal data, scientific approaches to extract valuable information are seldomly useful in practice. We propose a new approach to building an information system for football. This approach consists of a method to extract football-specific concepts from interviews, to formalize them in a performance model, and to define and implement the...
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Use of insecticides in agriculture and the prevention of vector-borne diseases: population knowledge, attitudes, practices and beliefs in Elibou, South Cote d'Ivoire
People's knowledge, attitudes, practices and beliefs (KAPB) pertaining to malaria are generally well described. However, little is known about population knowledge and awareness of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors. The aim of this study was to investigate KAPB related to insecticide resistance in malaria vectors due to the use of insecticides in agriculture and the prevention against mosquitoes. In mid-2017, we carried out a cross-sectional survey in Elibou, South Côte d'Ivoire, employing...
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Epitope mapping and fine specificity of human T and B cell responses for novel candidate blood-stage malaria vaccine P27A
P27A is a novel synthetic malaria vaccine candidate derived from the blood stage Plasmodium falciparum protein Trophozoite Exported Protein 1 (TEX1/PFF0165c). In phase 1a/1b clinical trials in malaria unexposed adults in Switzerland and in malaria pre-exposed adults in Tanzania, P27A formulated with Alhydrogel and GLA-SE adjuvants induced antigen-specific antibodies and T-cell activity. The GLA-SE adjuvant induced significantly stronger humoral responses than the Alhydrogel adjuvant. Groups of pre-exposed...
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Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis in Football with SportSense
The task of performance analysts and coaches in football (and other team sports) is manifold: they need to assess the performance of individual players of their team, they need to monitor the interaction between players of their team and their tactical compliance, and they need to analyze other teams. For this, they usually have to consider various sources of information: video footage, tracking data, event data, and aggregated statistics. On the basis of this information, analysts have to generate...
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Policy levers and priority-setting in universal health coverage: a qualitative analysis of healthcare financing agenda setting in Kenya
Competing priorities in health systems necessitate difficult choices on which health actions and investments to fund: decisions that are complex, value-based, and highly political. In light of the centrality of universal health coverage (UHC) in driving current health policy, we sought to examine the value interests that influence agenda setting in the country's health financing space. Given the plurality of Kenya's health policy levers, we aimed to examine how the perspectives of stakeholders involved...
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Incidence trends of airflow obstruction among European adults without asthma: a 20-year cohort study
Investigating COPD trends may help healthcare providers to forecast future disease burden. We estimated sex- and smoking-specific incidence trends of pre-bronchodilator airflow obstruction (AO) among adults without asthma from 11 European countries within a 20-year follow-up (ECRHS and SAPALDIA cohorts). We also quantified the extent of misclassification in the definition based on pre-bronchodilator spirometry (using post-bronchodilator measurements from a subsample of subjects) and we used this...
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Where there is no hospital: improving the notification of community deaths
Globally, an estimated two-thirds of all deaths occur in the community, the majority of which are not attended by a physician and remain unregistered. Identifying and registering these deaths in civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, and ascertaining the cause of death, is thus a critical challenge to ensure that policy benefits from reliable evidence on mortality levels and patterns in populations. In contrast to traditional processes for registration, death notification can be...
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ANACONDA: a new tool to improve mortality and cause of death data
The need to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to have access to reliable and timely mortality data has created a strong demand in countries for tools that can assist them in this. ANACONDA (Analysis of National Causes of Death for Action) is a new tool developed for this purpose which allows countries to assess how accurate their mortality and cause of death are. Applying ANACONDA will increase confidence and capacity among data custodians in countries about their mortality data...
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Improving the quality of cause of death data for public health policy: are all 'garbage' codes equally problematic?
All countries need accurate and timely mortality statistics to inform health and social policy debates and to monitor progress towards national and global health development goals. In many countries, however, civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are poorly developed. Consequently, the statistics they produce are not fit for purpose. In part, this arises because the physicians certifying cause of death (COD) have either not been adequately trained in how to complete a death certificate...
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Better data for better outcomes: the importance of process mapping and management in CRVS systems
Background Despite attempts to apply standard methods proven to work in high-income nations, nearly all civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle-income countries are failing to achieve adequate levels of registration completeness or produce the high-quality vital statistics needed to support better health outcomes and monitor progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This suggests that, rather than simple technical issues, these countries are facing...
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The fight against lymphatic filariasis: perceptions of community drug distributors during mass drug administration in coastal Kenya
Lymphatic filariasis (LF), a neglected tropical disease (NTD) and leading cause of global disability, is endemic in 32 countries in Africa with almost 350 million people requiring regular drug administration, and only 16 countries achieving target coverage. Community Drug Distributors (CDDs) are critical for the success of NTD programs, and the distribution of medicines during mass drug administration (MDA) in Africa; however they could also be a weak link. The primary aim of this study is to explore...
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Effects of transportation noise and particulate matter on the cardiovascular system: what is the new evidence?
Several decades of research provides compelling evidence that exposure to air pollution causes various diseases. Time series studies in Europe and the USA examined the short term effects on mortality and found about 1% increase for cardiovascular mortality per 10 μg/m3 increase in daily PM2.5 concentration. A comprehensive analysis of 12 European cohort studies addressing the long term effects found a 13% increased risk of coronary events per 5 μg/m3 increase in estimated annual mean PM2.5. Noise...
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Prospective assessment of loss to follow-up: incidence and associated factors in a cohort of HIV-positive adults in rural Tanzania
Lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves health outcomes for HIV-positive individuals, but is jeopardized by irregular clinic attendance and hence poor adherence. Loss to follow-up (LTFU) is typically defined retrospectively but this may lead to biased inferences. We assessed incidence of and factors associated with LTFU, prospectively and accounting for recurrent LTFU episodes, in the Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort (KIULARCO) of HIV-positive persons in rural Tanzania.; We included...
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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in rural Tanzania: the prospective Kilombero and Ulanga antiretroviral cohort
In sub-Saharan Africa, diagnosis and management of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in people living with HIV (PLHIV) remains a major challenge. This study aimed to characterize the epidemiology and risk factors for poor outcome of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in people living with HIV (PLHIV) in a rural setting in Tanzania.; We included PLHIV >18 years of age enrolled into the Kilombero and Ulanga antiretroviral cohort (KIULARCO) from 2013 to 2017. We assessed the diagnosis of tuberculosis by...
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Expression of a specific variant surface glycoprotein has a major impact on suramin sensitivity and endocytosis in Trypanosoma brucei
Suramin was introduced into the clinic a century ago and is still used to treat the first stage of acute human sleeping sickness. Due to its size and sixfold negative charge, uptake is mediated through endocytosis and the suramin receptor in trypanosomes is thought to be the invariant surface glycoprotein 75 (ISG75). Nevertheless, we recently identified a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG; Sur; ) that confers strong in vitro resistance to suramin in a; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; line. In this...
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Applied mathematical modelling to inform national malaria policies, strategies and operations in Tanzania
More than ever, it is crucial to make the best use of existing country data, and analytical tools for developing malaria control strategies as the heterogeneity in malaria risk within countries is increasing, and the available malaria control tools are expanding while large funding gaps exist. Global and local policymakers, as well as funders, increasingly recognize the value of mathematical modelling as a strategic tool to support decision making. This case study article describes the long-term...
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Experimental validation of recommended msr -correction factors for the calibration of Leksell Gamma Knife ® Icon tm unit following IAEA TRS-483
Currently, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) TG-21 is the conventional protocol currently used for the calibration of the Leksell Gamma Knife ® (LGK) (despite the publication of the AAPM TG-51 protocol). However, this protocol is based on the air-kerma standards requiring an elaborate conversion process resulting in an increase in the possibility of errors in the clinic. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Technical Reports Series (TRS)-483 Code of Practice...
Physics in Medicine and Biology - latest papers
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Learning-based estimation of dielectric properties and tissue density in head models for personalized radio-frequency dosimetry
Radio-frequency dosimetry is an important process in assessments for human exposure safety and for compliance of related products. Recently, computational human models generated from medical images have often been used for such assessment, especially to consider the inter-subject variability. However, a common procedure to develop personalized models is time consuming because it involves excessive segmentation of several components that represent different biological tissues, which is a ...
Physics in Medicine and Biology - latest papers
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Interactive 3D U-net for the segmentation of the pancreas in computed tomography scans
The increasing incidence of pancreatic cancer will make it the second deadliest cancer in 2030. Imaging based early diagnosis and image guided treatment are emerging potential solutions. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help provide and improve widespread diagnostic expertise and accurate interventional image interpretation. Accurate segmentation of the pancreas is essential to create annotated data sets to train AI, and for computer assisted interventional guidance. Automated deep learning...
Physics in Medicine and Biology - latest papers
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Care for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19
This JAMA Insights article reviews care for the most severely ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including standards of management of ARDS, preventing SARS-CoV-2 spread in health care settings, and surge preparation.
JAMA Online First
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Integrating Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Epidemics—Summary of a NASEM Report
In the context of an increase in infectious diseases occurring in association with the US epidemic of opioid use disorder (OUD), this Viewpoint summarizes recommendations from a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee report intended to facilitate and integrate public health responses to both.
JAMA Online First
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens
This Research Letter reports on detection of SARS-CoV-2 in human specimens, including bronchoalveolar fluid, sputum, feces, blood, and urine, to determine means of transmission besides respiratory droplets.
JAMA Online First
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Feedback-related Negativity (FRN) and Theta Oscillations: Different Feedback Signals for Non-Conform and Conform Decisions
Publication date: Available online 10 March 2020Source: Biological PsychologyAuthor(s): Yang Wang, Him Cheung, Lydia Ting Sum Yee, Chun-Yu Tse
Biological Psychology
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Treatment of odontogenic abscesses: comparison of primary and secondary removal of the odontogenic focus and antibiotic therapy
Abstract Purpose To examine the time of removal of the odontogenic focus, antibiotic therapy and risk factors in odontogenic abscesses. Patients From January 2012 to December 2015, inpatients undergoing incision due to odontogenic abscesses were identified in a retrospective study. All the patients were evaluated for time of removal of the odontogenic focus,...
Latest Results for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
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Success rate and complications of sialendoscopy and sialolithotripsy in patients with parotid sialolithiasis: a systematic review
Abstract Purpose To assess the success rate and complications of sialendoscopy and sialolithotripsy for parotid sialolithiasis. Materials and methods A total of 228 articles were identified by the electronic database search regarding the topics sialendoscopy and sialolithotripsy. Following independent then joint review of titles and abstracts, 109 articles...
Latest Results for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
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